To think that teachers should be able to distinguish BAME students by name?

[maggiethecat]

I have 2 DDs at different secondary schools and we have recently been having animated table discussions arising from the BLM protests. Both girls separately experienced teachers repeatedly confusing their names with the handful of other BAME students in the class. 13 yo DD cannot understand why she is repeatedly confused with another BAME girl who is much taller than her and unlike DD wears glasses. Apparently the offending teachers do not have this memory deficit with white students in the class

I can believe it Vivian

This happened to my friend's dd who was blonde, only white girl in class - called white bitch by her class mates, early 90s - from Asian girls.

Hah at loads of white ladies saying it's not a race thing. It definitely CAN be a race thing. When I was in infant school there was me and one other BAME girl in my entire infant school. I am mixed heritage, white British and Middle Eastern, with an immigrant father and a 'foreign' name that probably none of my teachers had ever heard before. I have olive coloured skin, on the fairer side. The other girl had a 'British' name. Both of her parents were British, one of them was white and one black, and she was black. We often got 'mistaken for each other'. Even though one of us was BLACK and the other was not at all. Absolutely ridiculous and clearly due to race. Clearly lots of the teachers could only see the two of us as 'not white' and that was it.

I hear you MeadowHay

I didn’t not believe that you were spat on that is awful

I know the area quite well I didn’t think it had/has a large Pakistani community (but is an area of high ethnic minorities)

I had a British Chinese friend in Thornton Heath in the '90s and we spoke about the demographic in the area and there was no large Pakistani population.

Some people are just rubbish with names ☺️ I'm terrible for calling children by their older sibling's name.

Whoever it was who replied to me about my post about learning names. I really struggle to learn names. And if I am several lessons in to teaching students, and there are certain ones I am still getting wrong, I'm embarrassed, and it singles out the student more by drawing attention to it. So I try and write my own phonetics next to their name as a clumsy way of remember. I teach over 200 students and some I see for one lesson a fortnight.